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Tourism is an incredibly lucrative industry in the Galapagos: The numbers of visitors have quadrupled between 1990 and 2009, and more than 160,000 people now visit each year. For mainland Ecuadorians, the islands are seen of a source of higher incomes, and many move to the archipelago to earn better wages. But thanks in part to lax enforcement of residency permits, the population of the protected region now stands at 30,000 and is growing at a rate of 6.5 percent a year, compared with 2.0 percent on mainland Ecuador

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Galapagos Islands Seek Sustainable Growth

Aside from the potential American Airlines strike, the carrier is facing other grim news this week. The Federal Aviation Administration has fined AA $300,000 for alleged maintenance violations.

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American Airlines faces $300,000 charge by FAA

What makes St Patrick’s Day one of the Five Worst Nights in New York ? Maybe it’s the increased odds of finding a man in uniform with no shoes passed out drunk on your stoop

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Nightlife: Uniformed Drunk Helps St. Patrick’s Day Live Up To Its Reputation

An Eater SF tipster has found a benefit to Yelp’s new Foursquare-like check in feature for restaurant owners : “If you have an iPhone, you could join Yelp, log in on your phone and see who in the dining room is ‘checked in.’ Users who are ‘checked in’ may not be there to review, but you could certainly make a mental note of whatever they experience and then keep an eye out for their review.” [Eater SF]

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Checking In: An Eater SF tipster has found…

It appears that El Pelon Taqueria is not the only new restaurant opening on Commonwealth Avenue across from Boston College in Brighton. According to a poster on Chowhound , Crazy Dough’s Pizza is looking to open next door to the Mexican restaurant (which opens today, by the way). Crazy Dough, which presently has locations in Harvard Square, Park Plaza, and the Back Bay, features three types of pizza–Sicilian, brick oven, and fire grilled.

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Crazy Dough’s Pizza Is Coming to Brighton

For the last couple of months, rumors have circulated that Ken Friedman is working on a new space within the Ace Hotel.

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Rumormongering: Will The John Dory Make its Comeback Within the Ace Hotel?

We have a sneaking suspicion that Andrew Evans traveled the entire 10,000 miles by bus just to hang out with penguins. You don’t have to remind me: I know how lucky I am

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Bus2Antarctica Video: Coping with Penguin Addiction

Acting on some twitter intel last night, a group of Eater operatives in the vicinity of The Gutter in Williamsburg headed on down to South 6th Street to confirm that yes Zak Pelaccio’s Fatty ‘Cue quietly opened to the public last night, about six days ahead of schedule (or two years behind schedule, depending on who’s counting). Not only is it open, but it looks like it’s going to be the Southside neighborhood-maker many had hoped it would be. As with any early opening, the place was overstaffed—it seemed like 19 people said thank you and goodbye on the way out—and just about every server was on his game (extra points to the guy in the “Bloggers Suck” t-shirt)

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Certified Open: Fatty ‘Cue is Open to the Public and Worth the Two Year Wait

My backyard is as busy as an international airport, but thankfully, not as noisy. As I prune back some of the winter-ravaged plants, I am surrounded by this flying traffic of bumble bees, honey bees, butterflies, humming birds, wrens, thrushes, and (my favorites) dragonflies.

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My Backyard Airport

Every week in Tony Bourdain and Eric Ripert’s radio show “Turn & Burn,” the hosts lampoon Ruth Reichl’s weirdly poetic tweets in a segment called the Tao of Ruth.

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#RuthReichlWins: Reichl Lampoons Her Own Tweets on Bourdain’s Radio Show

Hand-crafted and leather bound, the larger pieces come with discreet trolley wheels. Whilst exuding vintage chic, the collection is remarkably lightweight, perfect for easy transportation.  I like the Editors line in particular but all the models are sold out for now… Where: http://www.steamlineluggage.com/

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Retrochic luggage by StreamLine

Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday reserved its verdict with regard to a batch of Public Interest Litigations (PILs) seeking reopening of HAL airport for civil and commercial operations.The division bench, headed by Justice N Kumar, reserved its verdict after hearing all the parties,

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Bench reserves verdict on HAL airport

Superb night last Tuesday at Tryst with bartender Pat deciding to get out the maple syrup and make Knob Creek-based Old-Fashioneds and Manhattans. He also whipped up Breakfast Martinis and caramelized berries to go with some shots

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Tuesday at Tryst: Maple syrup, caramelized berries, Scottish invasion

It appears that the mystery of where Little Q Hot Pot is moving to may be over. According to the Arlington Advocate , the Asian hot pot place, which had to leave its Quincy location in January, has gotten approval to open in East Arlington. Earlier it had been reported by several media sources that Little Q was looking at Chinatown in Boston for its new location.

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Little Q Hot Pot Is Apparently Moving to East Arlington

I had an opportunity on Wednesday to participate in an hour-long media roundtable with Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO James Albaugh, that turned into a wide-ranging conversation about the future of the company’s commercial aircraft business. In addition to 737, 777 and 787, we discussed the future of the tanker and the potential for an ITAR line for the 767, production rates, China’s capability as an aircraft manufacturer, the future of the relationship with SPEEA and IAM, engine exclusivity and the future of Charleston.

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Boeing’s Albaugh on 737RE, 777EW and 787IGW, et al.

“Luxury Travel provides personalized service with native language of guests.”  David Nguyen, sales and marketing of Luxury Travel (www.luxurytravelvietnam.com ) said: “We have observed that an increasing number of German speaking guests are visiting our website and book tour in English. This is due, above all, to that fact that now, in our 6-year history, Luxury

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New Website in German

Book a hotel and you expect the price to be the same no matter if you found the hotel booking site through Google, or another channel, right? So, I was surprised to find out that booking a hotel with Vivastay through an affiliate link, the consumer receives a higher price than booking direct

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Consumers pay more due to hotel pricing affiliate issue

EAST VILLAGE — East Village Mexican stalwart Mary Ann’s has been seized by the tax man. [FitR] RED HOOK — The previously mentioned Cathy Erway-Sixpoint Brewery rooftop garden will now include live chickens.

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EaterWire: Mary Ann’s Seized, Reese Witherspoon in Food Blog Film

Click the image above to view the full photogallery. [Jessica Lin] For the last month, the gate has been rolled down tight on the old East Side Company Bar/future tiki bar Painkiller space on 49 Essex. Last night, the beginnings of a makeshift plywood entrance made its first appearance, meaning the building out of the space—soon to be home to a New York tiki culture —has finally reached a new phase.

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Plywood Special: Bamboo Installation Now in Progress at LES Tiki Bar Painkiller

There’s the real NCAA tourney, the Restaurant Madness bracket, and now, the all important Cake v. Pie Tournament . Each day Jezebel pits a pie against a pie, a cake against a cake until the winners from each side battle it out for the title.

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March Madness, Cont: There’s the real NCAA tourney, the…